The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-09-11
INFERRED IN EFFIGY.
How Mile. Helene de Rothschild Was Pun
fshed by Her Mother.


Lucy Harper's Paris Letter.
The sensation OF the past week has been the
marriage of Mile. Helene Betty de Rothschild to
the Baron van Zuylen van Haar of Belgium. 1t
was very quiet affair, only the relatives and
and most intimate friends of the bride and
bridegroom being present It is now soma
months since Mile. Helene, the greatest heiress
In Europe, packed up her trunks and went down
to Compeigne with all her retnue of servants.
equipages. dogs and horses to say nothing of
her governess and her lady companion, to STAY
the family, DIR. Raymond, and from thence to
launch the three respectful summons" required
by French law as preliminary to matrlmony
wlthous parental consent, at her mother. the
widowed Baroness Solomon. There ia not sol
itary objection be made to Baron van Haar,
except that he is Christian and Catholic,
and by no means wealthy As to the latter dis
qualification, it might have been overlooked, /
think. as the lady's fortune amounts to fully
$l2.OOO.0 900, with as much more in prospect when
her mother dies. She is sure to inherit the lat
ter fortune, despite the wrath of the old lady at
the marriage, for by the provision of
she Code no The can
gave in SO fer to accord at last a nominal con-
sent to the nuptials but she not presen: at
the wedding, and has, it is said. already Inferred
IN et1gy her disobedient daughter, with all the
solemn formalities of Jewish rites She is one
of the most bigoted in religious matters of all
that bigoted family. and has not for years past
80 much spoken to her two sisters, both of
whom married scions of the French nobility. 1t
is singular fact that while several of the ladies
or the hothschlld family have married Chris
tans, no male member of it has ever been known
to do It is a well-known fact that Baron
Alfred de Rothschld at time deeply
in love with the beautiful and widowed Mrs
Woodward formerly Miss Minnie King, of
Georgia, and now the Marchioness of Anglesey),
but his father, Baron James, of London, stern
~ prohibited the match. and as he. by the Eng
lish law, had the power Of Gisinheriting his son,
the young maE was forced to yield to the par
entail dictum. The Baron van Haar is said to be
one of the handsomest men in Europe; tall,
nj Ell in an final wit aOu1ar
lures and brilliant, expressive eyes He belong
to one of the noblest families in Belgium, his
young cousin and the head of the house being
Prince was present at the wedding and
the first witness for the bridegroom, Office
that corresponds at a French marriage to that
of "best man" at an English or American one.
He is a very handsome young fellow of twenty
seven and has more than once been in negotia-
being poor in pocket as he is noble by birth.
But he is dissipated youth, and his folies and
frolics have heretofore hindered him from mar
rJing wel-that ia to say. wealthy. The new
Baroness Haar, the bride of the other day, is
plain and stout and strong-minded and some
thing over thirly years of age. She always used
to declare that she never would marry. and
strenuously resisted all the attempts OF her
family to make match between herself and one
of her De Rothschild cousins. She has had her
own way, and has espoused the of her
choice. AS an American women, | can not but
applaud the energy and independence with
which she put her matrimonial projects into ex-
ecution. May she and her handsome husband
be as happy as the day is long. If the external
loneliness of a home has anything to do with the
bliss of its inmates, they certainly will be, for
charming hotel on the Avenue du Bots de Bon.
logne, in which the newly welded pair to
take up their residence when they return to
Paris from their honeymoon journey.